From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrevisionismre‧vi‧sion‧is‧m /rɪˈvɪʒənɪzəm/ noun [uncountable] PPPideas which are changing away from the main beliefs of a political system, especially a Marxist system —revisionist adjective revisionist writings —revisionist noun [countable]
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revisionism• For empiricists, revisionism is no heresy; and heresy no bad thing, anyway.• This is not to imply that this form of historical revisionism is ideologically neutral or objective.• He is sweeping along on a tide of revisionism.• Their vision of the party pointed towards a loosely-organized entity open to the revisionism from which western Marxist parties were suffering.• Mr Kinnock is a relatively recent convert to revisionism. 